Camile Paglia's recent commentary at Salon.com provided the following quote:

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"I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful … which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue."

I honestly do not care what Camile Paglia's position is on that. She is entitled to her own ideas and beliefs, but she knows well enough not to restrict other women to what someone else believes. No one has ever said that everyone has to believe that abortion is the right option for a woman, only that it is the individual woman's decision to make. You believe whatever you like, but do not assume that your belief is the only valid opinion for all women.

It is the same emotional rhetoric that's been around for years. No, her words have no effect whatsoever on my own opions. ANd Pro CHOICE does not mean Pro Abortion, regardless of what many so-called pro lofers claim. I personally would not chose abortion. That is ME. However, I am well aware of the fact that other women facing what appears on the surface as the same situation are going to have diferent internal factors to content with, and will not make the same choices I might. They shouldn't have to, either. One size does NOT fit all.

I am not asking you to conform to her beliefs. I am asking if they influence your opinion in any way.

Do you find it at all odd that the pro-abortion group can't even agree whether or not the unborn child is alive, or human?

What do you make of her assertion that abortion is the "..extermination of the powerless by the powerful"?

Her beliefs don't influence my opinion in any way.

I do not find it odd that PRO CHOICE people have different ideas about the conception of life, because we all agree on one thing, and that is the rights of the MOTHER trump the rights, if any at all, of the unborn.

I don't know of anyone who is pro-abortion who thinks it is a good idea; it is clearly a painful decision and one that I will never have to make since I do not have a womb.

The "PRO LIFE" side of this debate has always made the error of simplifying this topic.....which is clearly NOT a black and white one. The fact that people on the pro-choice side have varying opinions speaks well for us...that we are able to see the nuances of life's complex issues; I wish the other side would take a page from that book, and then maybe we could have some honest debate in this country instead of the phony outrage driven political machine that installs incompetent people like Sara Palin on the ticket simply because she is a staunch pro lifer.